This is a crucial development in the Tax Payers Alliance campaign to reduce the national debt and the tax burden. It is groundbreaking that while politicians are dodging the difficult questions, the TPA and the IoD have been able to be honest with the public about the tough decisions that must be made to even start to balance [...]
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Digital Britain: The Final Report
The Digital Britain Report is the Government’s strategic vision for ensuring that the UK is at the leading edge of the global digital economy. It is an example of industrial activism in a crucial growth sector. The report contains actions and recommendations to ensure first rate digital and communications infrastructure to promote and protect talent [...]
Public attitudes on the EU: Implications for Political Campaigns
Between the 1st and 4th May 2009, ICM polled a random sample of 1,002 adults (18+) on their attitudes to the EU. Interviews were conducted across the country and the results have been weighted to the profile of all adults. 1 While many of the questions are considered “normal”, some – like those in many [...]
Public Sector Expense Cost Transparency: Internet Technology
Public Sector Transparency: We have the Technology The whole MPs’ expenses scandal has reinforced the need for transparency in public spending. The entire sorry affair, from John Reid’s sparkly toilet seat to Elliot Morley’s phantom mortgage,is a textbook study of exactly how secrecy breeds deceit. Happily, the internet provides just the technology to change that. [...]
Tax Payers Alliance launch New online Green Tax Calculator
Find out how much you are paying for green taxes and regulations. The TPA has launched a new, online Green Tax Calculator. Just answer simple questions about the vehicle you drive, the amount you fly and your electricity and gas bills and the calculator will tell you the amount that you’ve paid for green taxes [...]
“Santa” Gordon Brown’s tax on Christmas
With money scarce and jobs under threat, most families will be watching the pennies this Christmas. But, while VAT rates have been cut, the taxman will still demand a hefty sum, with virtually all Christmas purchases, from iPhones to crackers subject to VAT and granny’s sherry attracting excise duty on top. Not forgetting the fuel [...]
Council Spending Uncovered: Councils spend average of £1 million a year on publicity
In December 2007, the TaxPayers Alliance produced the first ever examination of the growth of town hall spending on publicity over the last decade, which is itemised in the annual accounts of the 450-plus local authorities in the UK. It found that councils had doubled their spending on publicity, creating a £450 million publicity machine, [...]
UK Budget April 2009 – Tax Payers Alliance Comment
The 2009 Budget, which was delivered on Wednesday, will undoubtedly go down in history as one of the most crushingly awful forecasts for the British public finances ever made. Even using unrealistic predictions of the depth of the recession and the speed of the eventual recovery, Alistair Darling still painted a damning picture that is [...]